Role Overview Nest are looking for an experienced public sector Commercial Procurement Compliance and Contract Manager with extensive knowledge of PCR 2015 and good knowledge of the new Procurement Act 2023, to provide professional and effective procurement, commercial and contract support across the team and business ensuring value for money and transparency are compliantly achieved.We are open to discussing working patterns.We welcome all internal applicants to apply for our roles, regardless of your current working pattern or hours. We will aim to accommodate your request and match your current working arrangements.Don't worry if you think you don't have all the key skills, it might be worth taking the few minutes to apply as we're good at spotting potential and offer a generous training budget. Please download a full job description to find a full scope, deliverables, experience and personal attributes required for this role. Reward and recognition A discretionary bonus scheme Reward and recognition scheme Enhanced auto enrolled pension – your contributions start at the default 5% while ours are higher at 8%. If you up your contributions to 6% we raise ours to 9%. If you contribute 7% or more we’ll contribute 10%. Income protection scheme – is an insurance benefit that provides you with income if you cannot work due to illness or incapacity. Flexible and agile working Everyone's personal situation is different.To make the most out of hybrid working, we've introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements): hybrid of office (Canary Wharf, London) and home working (there will be an expectation to attend the office, once - twice a week, or more, as required) reduce or vary working hours reduce or vary the days worked work compressed hours job share Directorate/Department Overview The Commercial Procurement team is a part of the Central Support Services Directorate which also includes the Finance, HR, IT, Central Change, Facilities, Internal Comms and Commercial Management teams. The Commercial Procurement team consists of a Head of, three commercial procurement business partners, a commercial procurement co-ordinator and a commercial procurement analyst.The Commercial Procurement team are responsible for providing professional and effective procurement, commercial and contract support across the business ensuring value for money and transparency are achieved in a compliant manner.The bulk of the Corporation’s expenditure is on external services. Third party spend is around £20m/£25m p.a. and growing. Procurement and contract management activity on the scale and complexity of Nest Corporation’s demands an exceptionally strong team of experienced people from a variety of backgrounds, including procurement expertise, programme and project management expertise, commercial negotiation, contract and relationship management and business analysis.Although the Commercial Procurement team does not currently operate a category management structure we do operate a Business Partner approach across eight Directorates, enabling the business to have one dedicated contact to approach with queries, for training and to discuss strategies and future requirements. At Nest there are fourteen identified categories which make up the portfolio of spend, including professional services, marketing, research, investment and IT. The Commercial Procurement team are therefore required to maintain a level of understanding about the category dynamics.The portfolio of core activities within the team includes: end to end procurement activity through to contract award maintaining the contracts database which consist over approximately 250 contractual agreements (past and present) annually procuring and letting contracts on average one new contract provision per week annually overseeing the authorisation of approximately 200 Purchase Orders and overseeing the management of a supplier database of approximately 330 suppliers implementing contract management policy providing training/advice to colleagues around the business supporting audits ensuring compliance with PCR 2015 and the Procurement Act 2023 All team members report to the Head of Commercial Procurement. Organisational Overview Nest is an award-winning workplace pension scheme, the largest in the country.Set up by the government to give every worker in the UK somewhere to save, our first-class responsible investment practice and governance are the backbone of what we do, supported by all the functions you’d expect to find in a thriving business. We’re committed to creating a workplace where you can be your authentic self and offer an inclusive and flexible working environment.From a standing start, Nest has delivered a high-quality, low-cost pension scheme, open to all, which has not only delivered on its mission, but helped to drive up standards and best practice across the industry. Now with 13.6 million members, Nest is playing a critical role in helping people save for their retirement many of them low to moderate earners who may be saving for the first time and moving jobs frequently.Nest now occupies a place in the market as a major Master Trust, a sector that has grown following the introduction of automatic enrolment and that we believe has great potential for delivering pensions to mass market consumers for many years to come, leveraging scale to offer low cost, modernised services in the context of strong Trustee governance.If you have any difficulty in sending your application or need the application pack in an alternative format, or you require any reasonable adjustments please contact: .uk.